Current Awards and Prizes

HSRAANZ Professional Award

Distinguished Investigator Awards

These awards have replaced the HSRAANZ Professional Award. These awards recognise investigators who have made significant contributions to the fields of health services research and health policy in Australia and New Zealand through scholarship and teaching, advancement of science and methods, and leadership. Awards will be given in up to three categories:

Life time achievement

This category will recognise a lifetime of achievement in the fields of health services research and health policy in Australia or New Zealand. The Association is keen to recognise services to the field with respect to research, translation, training, and teaching.

This category will recognise mid-career researchers who over a shorter career span have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of health services and health policy research through scholarship and teaching, advancement of science and methods, translation and leadership.

The Best Paper by an early career researcher was presented to Dr Erin Penno for her paper “The role, costs and value for money of external consultancies in the health sector: A study of New Zealand’s District Health Boards”

Health Services and Policy Research Impact Award

This award recognises research that has had a significant impact on health and health care over the previous 12 months. The award is intended to identify and promote examples of outstanding research that have been successfully translated into health policy, management, or clinical practice.

The award is open to an individual, group or institution.

Awards and Prizes at the Health Services and Policy Research Conference

Early Career Researchers 3 Minute Presentation Competition.

Early Career Researchers have the opportunity at the HSRAANZ Biennial Conference to present a snapshot of their research in the 3 minute presentation competition.

Submission requirements/Assessment
Entrants must provide a 200 word unstructured abstract. Entries will be assessed initially on the basis of abstracts, with finalists selected to present in a dedicated session at the conference.
For further details go to the conference website.

Past Winners

2017

JUDGES' CHOICE - Nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers in primary health care: A realist evaluation of the New Zealand experienceTara Officer, Health Services Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington

PEOPLE'S CHOICE - A data linkage and patient outcome study of aeromedical retrieval services in Central QueenslandKristin Edwards, James Cook University
Best Abstract

The Best (highest ranked) abstract overall. The Best (highest ranked) abstract by an ECR

Submission Requirements/Assessment:
The Conference Abstract reviewers will rank abstracts and identify the top 6-10 in each category. The top abstracts will then be further reviewed by a small panel on experts.

Past Winners

2017

Best Abstract Overall was awarded to Thomas Elliott Senior Research Assistant, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute for his abstract:

Best Abstract from an Early Career Researcher was awarded to Grace Kyoon-Achan University of Manitoba for

Journeys to healthcare transformation: Partnering for change through Community based Participatory Research with Manitoba First Nations
Grace Kyoon-Achan1, Josée G. Lavoie1, Kathi Avery Kinew2, Stephanie Sinclair2
1University of Manitoba; 2First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba

Best Poster
The Best (highest ranked overall)
The Best (highest ranked) Undergraduate or PhD Student

Submission Requirements/Assessment
Awards will be based on the scores of a panel of experts and peers. Posters are assessed during the conference.